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1 ■ Continued from page I B
Business owners and resi-
dents in the downtown dis-
trict have spent the past year
reviewing design guidelines
after a contentious hotel de-
f velopment. Plans called for a
78 -Foot -tall hotel on President
Clinton Avenue, which would
have exceeded the district's
four-story or 48 -foot -tall limit
on new construction.
The plan pitted downtown
boosters against one another
F — some said the hotel would
encourage new business and
tourism, while ot]xers said it
would lead to the demolition
of smaller buildings, hurting
d15C(7sSERI1. a...,aa. a
Cityplanners recommended
denying the permit, saying the
the district.
The overlay district's
boundaries are Cumberland
Street east to Interstate 30
acid from the Arkansas River
south to East Second Street,
r although the River Market
name extends beyond those
boundaries.
even-
tuallyThe
otel
withdrew his developer plans, but
the district's guidelines got a
working over by a special re-
view committee. In August,
the cornrnittee recommend-
ed against allowing property
owners to replace buildings
constructed before 1940 with
taller structures. The group
also suggested changing the
name of the district to avoid
confusion over where regula-
erision to the Little Rock
Boar p ctors in com%n
weeks, g
tions apply.
Both those suggestions
have since been dropped. The
draft that planning commis-
sioners approved Thursday
would limit all new construc-
tion to Go feet.
"We were following our
city attorney's advice," said
Brian Minyard, a city planner
who worked with the corn -
r ittee. The city couldn't treat
properties in the district dif-
ferently, he said.
Proposed changes also
include allowing businesses
larger signs, changing the
makeup of the district's re-
view committee to include a
design Professional and a rep-
resentative from the Down-
town Partnership.
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